Finally, some good news on the free speech front: a Christian school worker who lost her job after sharing posts about gay relationships has won a crucial legal battle.
Seven years ago, Kristie Higgs, a pastoral worker and mother at a primary school who held firm Christian views, used her private Facebook account to complain in colourful language about plans to rejig sex and relationships education in primary schools. One post referred to “brainwashing our children”. Another mentioned “suppressing Christianity and removing it from the public arena”.
Higgs also called on her Facebook friends to sign a petition. She felt particularly exercised about suggestions that gender was a matter of choice, and that same-sex relationships might be stated to be as good as heterosexual ones. These views were expressed, not at work or to co-workers, but in posts on a Facebook page open only to her friends. They did not directly mention Mrs Higgs’s connection with Farmor’s School in Fairford, Gloucestershire; and they used her maiden, rather than her more public married, name.
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